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2006 African Women's Championship

7th edition of WAFCON

Field	Value
tourney_name	African Women's Championship
year	2006
dates	28 October – 11 November
country	Nigeria
num_teams	8
venues	4
cities	4
champion_other
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
count	7
matches	16
goals	54
top_scorer	NGR Perpetua Nkwocha (7 goals)
player	RSA Portia Modise
prevseason	2004
nextseason	2008

The 2006 African Women's Championship was the 7th edition of the biennial African women's association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football. Originally scheduled to be held in Gabon in September, it took place in Nigeria for the 4th time from 28 October to 11 November 2006.

Gabon withdrew as hosts due to "organizational reasons", thus CAF gave this tournament edition's hosting rights to Nigeria in May 2006. Initially, this edition of the tournament was scheduled for September 2006, but it was moved to October due to weather considerations.

This edition of the tournament also doubled as the African qualification for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. Nigeria won its 5th consecutive title, beating Ghana 1–0 in the final, although both finalists were guaranteed qualification to that edition of the international tournament in China. South Africa's Portia Modise was named player of the championship.

Qualification

Main article: 2006 African Women's Championship qualification

The original hosts (Gabon) qualified automatically, while the remaining seven spots were determined by the qualification rounds which took place from March to August 2006.

Nigeria initially entered qualification at the second round and was scheduled to play Equatorial Guinea when CAF elected them as replacement hosts, thus that match was scrapped and both teams qualified for the group stage at Gabon's expense.

Format

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied; if scores still level, extra time would be skipped and the use of a penalty shoot-out would determine the qualifier. The seven winners of the qualification round qualified for the group stage.

Qualified teams

Equatorial Guinea made their tournament debut at this edition.

Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous tournament appearances
Replacement hosts	17 May 2006	6 (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004)
By default	17 May 2006	Debut
Winners against Tanzania	4 August 2006	5 (1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004)
Winners against Egypt	5 August 2006	1 (2004)
Winners by default against Congo	5 August 2006	6 (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004)
Winners against Kenya	5 August 2006	5 (1991, 1998, 2000, 2002)
Winners against Senegal	5 August 2006	1 (1998)
Winners against Benin	6 August 2006	2 (2002, 2004)

;Notes

Group stage

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams in the group stage are tied on points tie-breakers are in order:

greater number of points in matches between tied teams
superior goal difference in matches between tied teams
greater number of goals scored in matches between tied teams
superior goal difference in all group matches
greater number of goals scored in all group matches
fair play criteria based on red and yellow cards received
drawing of lots

Group A

Equatorial Guinea arrived at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in a private chartered plane which had no clearance to land, with its players unable to disembark for 3 hours. This left them no other choice than to return home unhappy with the treatment they received by airport officials despite organizers trying to remedy the situation. However, their first match was played as scheduled.

Group B

Knockout stage

Bracket

|7 November - Warri||5||0 |7 November - Oghara||1||0 |11 November - Warri||1||0 |10 November - Delta||2 (4)| |2 (5)

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China.

Third place play-off

Final

This match was described by the BBC as "a drab encounter".

Awards

Notes

References

(17 April 2006). "Gabon pulls out of hosting AWC".
Boadu-Ayeboafoh, Yaw. (17 May 2006). "Nigeria awarded 2006 AWC". Graphic Communications Group.
Okeleji, Oluwashina. (31 July 2006). "CAF delays Women's Championship".
"Portia simply the Ellis".
(27 October 2006). "E/Guinea Flies into Trouble, Return to Malabo".

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